How many times you ask yourself “What video sharing site is the best one?“, “How to Find What You Need Online?“, “Why do so many video and music aggregators appear every day and which is the best?“. Oh, it’s a hot potato problem! I just hope you don’t perish your time thinking about the question “to be or not to be?“.

• Find a pertinent search engine.

You are right! It depends on what are you looking for: pics, videos, shopping, music or news. Sure thing! Choosing the most appropriate way of searching video on the web, remember that the Internet is the mother of all information, the answer to all our information needs. There are myriads of search tools and engines that will or won’t waste your time and try your patience. Moreover, there are plenty of needless sites that give you a needless work. So if you are looking for your favorite video clips you won’t be disappointed if you follow our tips.

Add and arrange words to make your search as specific as possible. For example, don’t search on funny if you really want funny videos. Arrange words in order from most important to least important. Better than small Midwest colleges is colleges Midwest small.

I suggest you bookmark your two favorite video search engines so you can quickly return to them, or at least a heap of video sharing websites you like more.

• Make searching video your aim.

Make sure you don’t fritter your time away, cause the internet is like a quagmire that in spite of itself suck in and lead you astray. The internet is exploding with empty dazzle sites that direct you to ephemeral links and after a time you see no wayout. Where to move on? Why does it happen with you? According to the various studies on average 60-80 % of people searching for information on the web failed to find what they are looking for.

• What do you need to find, and what do you already know?

I know what I’m looking for, and I can describe it with some key words/exact phrase. If you type these words, you will have a result (video search may still be in proof-of-concept stage, but as more and more TV shows, short-length video clips, etc. up on the Web, it’s clear that every search engine will need to tackle it eventually).

This problem is not a problem anymore. By the way, nowadays it is possible to find that or those videos and movies just by means of a contextual advertising on video streams. Nexidia presents this technology. The process is simple even for an average man. The technology works by turning each spoken word into a keyword. Then it gives each keyword a confidence score and time stamp and then tags it all to the video or audio file. It’s easier for an algorithm to tell one sound from among 42 than one word from among the millions in the English language. You watch video, system takes video, indexes it, makes it searchable, and also makes it possible to bring contextual advertising and place it next to the video. Surely this future is just around the corner to happen thanks to Nexedia.

• You can start with the following search engines.

1. Google and YouTube. However, you can only search for videos uploaded onto that particular platform. This problem is a current task. Google Video has an exclusive access to all YouTube and Google Video data, i.e. makes Google Video search much superior to others.
2. Microsoft launched a YouTube clone last fall called Soapbox. Users can browse categories, find related videos, subscribe to RSS feeds, and share their favorites. Soapbox search is still as bad as the rest of them.
3. AOL Video offers a leading video search engine that can be used to find video located on popular video destinations across the web. It made the biggest push. Their video search actually attempts to search the entire Internet. AOL had this capability after acquiring the successful startup Truveo in early 2006. Comprehensive search engine for audio, video and MP3.
4. TV Eyes is different, because it crawls real TV channels.
5. Pixsy is an unexcelled video search startup.
6. ClipBlast claims to have the largest online video collection, but doesn’t justify hopes.
7. blinkx has a chance to be the one of the greatest video search startups due to its innovative interface, which shows a preview of videos in the search results. Was launched in 2004 and uses speech recognition and visual analysis to process spidered video rather than rely on metadata alone.
8. Mamma provides plenty of video search options.
9. Altavista provides the most comprehensive search experience on the web as they say and had one of the first video search engines with easy accessible use.
10. Searchforvideo. “Videos from around the web” and this is really so! Offers video search and lists video links - organized by topic - from thousands of online video sources, updated regularly throughout the day.

• How Many Video Sharing Sites Do We Need?

There are lots of them and they spring up like mushrooms. I have a foreboding that in the near future video aggregators (or/and clones) will overshadow the main part of video sharing services. So what? We will try a different approach then.

Most of people according to our polls prefer amateur home videos, funny videos and music video clips. I hope you are not a kind of a porno lover who at heart dreams nolens volens to find some good stuff of it?! Otherwise these tips are catered not for you!

P.S. Remember, the web isn’t the only way to find information, but the only way to find all the possible videos in the world. Effective video search engines give people what they are looking for. It shows them what they want to see.

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